Bjorn Thomassen

Bjorn Thomassen

Bjorn’s work has been featured extensively in photography magazines, journals and books.

Bjorn co-wrote a book with Dan Lezano ‘100 Ways To Take Better Portraits’.

Bjorn was one of the four experts for the mag-book, The Essential Guide to Portraits.

Bjorn regularly contributed images and articles for Digital SLR Photography magazine.

Bjorn has gained a multitude of coveted awards over the years. He holds three Fellowships, two in Portraiture and one in Illustrative photography, plus a European QEP.

Qualified to judge. Bjorn is a qualified judge with over two decades of experience.

Qualified to teach. Bjorn’s teaching skills have gained him an enviable reputation.

Where Bjorn has taught:

Bjorn has spoken and judged for numerous photographic companies, organisations and sponsors at courses and seminars all over the UK for over two decades.
Cornwall
Cornwall has been Bjorn’s primary home and the venue for hundreds of delegates to attend Bjorn’s group courses as well as One to One training.

Saudi Arabia
Bjorn was selected to provide training for the largest and most prestigious studio in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. While there Bjorn photographed members of the Saudi Royal family

Mediterranean and Scandinavia
Bjorn represented the Societies of Photographers on training tours in multiple countries around the Mediterranean & Scandinavia.

Europe
Independently, Bjorn has been invited to present training and judging to many photographic organizations and individuals around Europe.

Essential Composition for all Photographers

Graves

Learn why artistic and intellectual composition is central to success in photography. As a photographic judge and as an accomplished photographer, Bjorn has always endorsed an advanced knowledge of composition as being essential to success. Sadly, in Bjorn’s opinion, a lack of compositional knowledge is also quite essential to failure. Successful composition draws on a […]

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Lighting for Portraits, and beyond

Fronsac

This Masterclass is all about light and for anyone who uses light, whether artificial, flash, or available. A greater knowledge of lighting supports all genres of photography, well beyond Portraiture. Bjorn is revered in the field of light and his passion for light is quite contagious. This class will focus on light in its various […]

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